Exploring Practices Determining School Effectiveness: A Case Study in Selected South African Secondary Schools

Abstract

When parents choose a school for their children to attend, especially a secondary school, they usually look for an effective school’ so that their children can receive what they regard as a good, quality education. In this process, it is most common that parents evaluate or assess the effectiveness of secondary schools on the basis of the school’s academic results or outputs. But what other factors, apart from academic results, constitute school effectiveness?